53 "Nothing" Quotes

In a world often brimming with noise and constant activity, the concept of "nothing" can be surprisingly profound. From philosophers and poets to contemporary thinkers, many have explored the depth and meaning that lies within this seemingly simple concept. Whether it’s finding solace in moments of quiet or contemplating the emptiness that can sometimes surround us, the notion of "nothing" has inspired countless reflections and insights. In this blog post, we've curated a collection of the top 53 quotes that delve into various interpretations and musings on "nothing," offering you a chance to pause, ponder, and perhaps find a new appreciation for the void.

1. “What have I become?My sweetest friend; everyone I know goes away in the end.And you could have it all:my empire of dirt.I will let you down.I will make you hurt.” - Nine Inch Nails

2. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” - Leo Tolstoy

3. “And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.” - C.S. Lewis

4. “I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.” - Oscar Wilde

5. “it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee.” - Charles Bukowski

6. “To do nothing is the way to be nothing.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

7. “From the moment we are born, we begin to die.” - Janne Teller

8. “Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.” - Jonathan Safran Foer

9. “...people with nothing to declare carry the most.” - Jonathan Safran Foer

10. “I am nothing, and not even that.” - Chuck Palahniuk

11. “turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.” - Ken Kesey

12. “His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies used to hurt you with. 'Give them nothing, baby. Not until you have no choice. The world is harsh and it is cold. People can be good and decent, but most of them are only out for themselves and they'll hurt anyone they can'.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

13. “this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.” - Lucretius

14. “The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.” - Charles Bukowski

15. “She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.” - Ann Brashares

16. “I wont cry, it'll be fine. I'll take my last breath. Push it out my chest 'til there's nothing left.” - Hollywood Undead

17. “The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the heart of nothing much that mattered.” - Alan Heathcock

18. “I wanted nothing for free.Nothing came for free at our place anyway.” - Markus Zusak

19. “There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!” - Libba Bray

20. “But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.” - Lionel Shriver

21. “The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.” - Isaac Marion

22. “As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.[Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777]” - Frederick The Great

23. “As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.” - Francine Pascal

24. “I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.” - Michelle Hodkin

25. “Zero is the number people often feel, more so than one.” - Anthony Liccione

26. “One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.” - Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

27. “Life is like challenge if u fail in life then u feel so bad in your whole life.like is like race don't try to break it.life gives lots of happys don't miss it.” - Tanmaya Rana

28. “Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.” - Dejan Stojanovic

29. “Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing” - Dejan Stojanovic

30. “Do not look too far for you will see nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

31. “Nothing is part of everything.” - Dejan Stojanovic

32. “Without nothing, everything would be nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

33. “From everything, nothing looks to nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

34. “From nothing comes everything.” - Dejan Stojanovic

35. “When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.” - Dejan Stojanovic

36. “When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.” - Dejan Stojanovic

37. “To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.” - Dejan Stojanovic

38. “Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.” - Dejan Stojanovic

39. “I was born with nothing and I still have nothing. And tomorrow is nothing.” - Chimo

40. “When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet” - Strider Marcus Jones

41. “For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” - James Baldwin

42. “Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.” - Neal Shusterman

43. “What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin line there all round everything.[...]It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt small and weak. When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric?” - James Joyce

44. “Nemalonumai nėra pats blogiausias dalykas, kuris mums gali atsitikti. Baisiausia yra, kai mums NIEKO neatsitinka!” - Richard Bach

45. “The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.” - Mark Allen Smith

46. “Art is a passion or it is nothing” - Robert Fry

47. “Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.” - Alexandra Potter

48. “Nothing happens. And by that I mean nothing.” - Ida Løkås

49. “Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.” - Laura Lam

50. “History is the nothing people write about a nothing.” - William Golding

51. “But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.” - Robert Penn Warren

52. “Ma ei taha vähemat kui kõige paremat.” - Kati Murutar

53. “Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)” - Erin Gruwell